▼ Not recommended
216 hrs
I have waited for almost a month since release, hoping that the devs would reflect on their choices and take a good hard look at the balance between the classes, skills, Mastery types and affixes but after today's update I decided that I will not continue to wait any longer.
At this stage, it is more of a beta than an actual full game. Too much is missing, too many things need to be changed/reworked and rebalanced.
I do not recommend buying the game as it is right now and suggest waiting for a few major patches first. At least until things have actually been balanced properly and the game feels more like a full game. Many things are out of balance or need a drastic rework.
With the latest update, the devs claim they gave compensation skins. Here's the truth: During the demo, only the classes that could be played had some skins.
When the full game was released (and they removed the demo) still only those classes that were available during the demo had skins. In other words, they call it "compensation" but in reality, they simply added skins to the game that should have been in already since release.
Claiming "compensation" for bad balancing and messing up on translations (many things went from English to Chinese to English to Chinese again over several updates. They are now in English again but I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up being in Chinese again in a future update) is misleading.
Their post about a future update including more "compensation skins" is even more misleading. We don't want "compensation skins". We want a fun and balanced game.
The demo was closer to an "alpha" version of a game and at the current stage, the game would be closer to a "beta" version.
I will explain:
A full game has items present that support all possible builds of all classes, even in its base form.
This game for example does not have any gems for:
* Fire Mastery
* Ice Mastery
* Lightning Mastery
* Poison Mastery
* Dark Mastery
* Pet Mastery
* Lifesteal Mastery
* Bleed
* Reflect Damage
It only has Holy Mastery out of all masteries. Some of the other gems are literally useless.
For example: When your heroes have 700+k health, what good are "+1" to "+7" Health Regeneration gems going to do? Monsters and bosses hit for much more so it's "kill or be killed". Each item has 7 gem slots. Even if we were to put a "+7 Health Regeneration" gem in every slot on every item we'd only get 392 Health Regeneration per second. If a boss hits me for 300k every second or so, what good will 392 Health per second do for me? I'd be better off filling everything with Attack Damage or Magic Damage or even Crit Damage.
I read that in a future update you want to add more. Awesome, except that the most useless ones (Health Regeneration and Mana Regeneration) will remain useless.
There isn't any real choice in what type of gems you put in your items because of the severe lack of balance.
The "SSR Slot Machine" item, which lets you reroll affixes in the Forging Table, only has a limited amount of choices and it even rerolls
During the demo, you could roll for the "Beast Hunt" affix.
When the game was released, it was removed from being rolled for (and added in the Forge through items) and could no longer have it show up on items or get it on your items through the Forge.
An update later, it was added to the game again but could not be put as an affix on your items. It was a drop-only type of Affix.
Another update later, it was now "Unique".
Over the course of several updates since release, several affixes were removed, re-added and made "Unique".
I have yet to see an item drop with this Affix however in my hundreds of hours of playing the release version. Someone else has seen it drop (lucky them) though. Meanwhile some other Mastery types have multiple Affixes....
These things not only limit a hero's build (or choices you can make in how you want to build your hero) but the way these are designed by the devs make me wonder if they know what they are doing.
"Beast Hunt" being "Unique" (meaning only one of these will work so there's no point in having multiple of this Affix on your weapon) whereas other similar Affixes ("Fire Enchant", "Frost Enchant", "Lightning Enchant", "Weapon Poison", "Dark Corrosion" et cetera) can be stacked (seriously, whoever came up with this design choice needs to think of what they are doing) is ridiculous.
To make matters more absurd: There are MULTIPLE affixes for several types of Mastery. Holy Mastery has the most with "Holy Enhancement", "Divine Punishment" (weapon-only apparently, strange choice at this point as it was originally a universal one), "Spirit of Angel" (weapon-only) and "Shaman" (weapon-only). So, dear devs, could you kindly explain to us why some get FOUR different Affixes doing pretty much the same thing while others can't even get one that can be rolled for (or obtained at all)?
Holy Mastery: 4
Fire Mastery: 2
Ice Mastery: 2
Lightning Mastery: 3
Dark Mastery: 1
Poison Mastery: 0
Pet Mastery: 0
Lifesteal Mastery: 0
Where's the fairness? Or the balance? (What is your obsession with "Holy"? It's frightening.)
With all of the "Unique" affixes being added and Affixes being changed to "Unique" it starts limiting what we can actually put on our items.
Some Uniques are very questionable as well. "Steadfast" for example. "Critical hits no longer trigger, but damage dealt is increased by x%" with "x%" being up to 35%. Dear devs, if I have to give up 1000% crit damage (in other words, TEN TIMES more damage) while I'm sitting at 100% crit chance then why would I give that up for a mere 15-35% damage increase?
Another thing: Excessive (above 100%) Crit chance is being converted to 2% crit damage for every 1% crit chance.
What about dodge chance? Or cooldown reduction? Plenty of hero skills that can give a hero absurd values. For example: My Fire Sorceror has the "Passion" Passive at level 190 which gives: "reduce skill cooldown by 965%". Great, except that cooldown reduction is capped at 70% which makes anything beyond that (and therefore hero Passives that give this beyond the 70%) absolutely useless.
It's the same with the dodge Passive and even the "Sudden Rebirth" Passive (25% Chance to instantly revive when summons die, which scales well into the 200+% without adding anything beyond 100%). Basically, any Passive that exceeds a cap (or absolute certainty in the case of "100%") is USELESS above their cap and needs to be reworked to make them useful.
Legendary bosses drop a "Corruption Chest". In the past, I would get items of up to level 500-600 from this chest based on the floor level I was on.
These days, the Corruption Chest is useless for me. I get level 1800+ items. What would I want a level 450-460 item for?
Make them scale with floor levels or Legendary boss difficulty or something…. Legendary boss at "Extreme S" difficulty drops level 3500-3700 gear so why does the Corruption Chest give me 400-500?
Devs claim they read the forums. I have brought up the "Beast Hunt" Affix several times. No response whatsoever. During this time, one of the devs literally had not replied to anything for several days (so much for activity) and the other gave some replies but only to some Chinese posts (I guess non-Chinese players don't really matter).
At this stage, the game feels, plays and is balanced like an early beta and should not have been released as a full game. There is way too much balancing work to be done.
Suggestion for the devs: Stop claiming "compensation" for newly added skins that should have been in since day 1 of release (instead "compensate" us by delivering quality and proper balance), stop adding new Affixes of things that are already in the game (at least until ALL masteries have a fair and equal treatment) and and start fixing and balancing the things that are already in the game first.
At this stage, it is more of a beta than an actual full game. Too much is missing, too many things need to be changed/reworked and rebalanced.
I do not recommend buying the game as it is right now and suggest waiting for a few major patches first. At least until things have actually been balanced properly and the game feels more like a full game. Many things are out of balance or need a drastic rework.
With the latest update, the devs claim they gave compensation skins. Here's the truth: During the demo, only the classes that could be played had some skins.
When the full game was released (and they removed the demo) still only those classes that were available during the demo had skins. In other words, they call it "compensation" but in reality, they simply added skins to the game that should have been in already since release.
Claiming "compensation" for bad balancing and messing up on translations (many things went from English to Chinese to English to Chinese again over several updates. They are now in English again but I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up being in Chinese again in a future update) is misleading.
Their post about a future update including more "compensation skins" is even more misleading. We don't want "compensation skins". We want a fun and balanced game.
The demo was closer to an "alpha" version of a game and at the current stage, the game would be closer to a "beta" version.
I will explain:
A full game has items present that support all possible builds of all classes, even in its base form.
This game for example does not have any gems for:
* Fire Mastery
* Ice Mastery
* Lightning Mastery
* Poison Mastery
* Dark Mastery
* Pet Mastery
* Lifesteal Mastery
* Bleed
* Reflect Damage
It only has Holy Mastery out of all masteries. Some of the other gems are literally useless.
For example: When your heroes have 700+k health, what good are "+1" to "+7" Health Regeneration gems going to do? Monsters and bosses hit for much more so it's "kill or be killed". Each item has 7 gem slots. Even if we were to put a "+7 Health Regeneration" gem in every slot on every item we'd only get 392 Health Regeneration per second. If a boss hits me for 300k every second or so, what good will 392 Health per second do for me? I'd be better off filling everything with Attack Damage or Magic Damage or even Crit Damage.
I read that in a future update you want to add more. Awesome, except that the most useless ones (Health Regeneration and Mana Regeneration) will remain useless.
There isn't any real choice in what type of gems you put in your items because of the severe lack of balance.
The "SSR Slot Machine" item, which lets you reroll affixes in the Forging Table, only has a limited amount of choices and it even rerolls
During the demo, you could roll for the "Beast Hunt" affix.
When the game was released, it was removed from being rolled for (and added in the Forge through items) and could no longer have it show up on items or get it on your items through the Forge.
An update later, it was added to the game again but could not be put as an affix on your items. It was a drop-only type of Affix.
Another update later, it was now "Unique".
Over the course of several updates since release, several affixes were removed, re-added and made "Unique".
I have yet to see an item drop with this Affix however in my hundreds of hours of playing the release version. Someone else has seen it drop (lucky them) though. Meanwhile some other Mastery types have multiple Affixes....
These things not only limit a hero's build (or choices you can make in how you want to build your hero) but the way these are designed by the devs make me wonder if they know what they are doing.
"Beast Hunt" being "Unique" (meaning only one of these will work so there's no point in having multiple of this Affix on your weapon) whereas other similar Affixes ("Fire Enchant", "Frost Enchant", "Lightning Enchant", "Weapon Poison", "Dark Corrosion" et cetera) can be stacked (seriously, whoever came up with this design choice needs to think of what they are doing) is ridiculous.
To make matters more absurd: There are MULTIPLE affixes for several types of Mastery. Holy Mastery has the most with "Holy Enhancement", "Divine Punishment" (weapon-only apparently, strange choice at this point as it was originally a universal one), "Spirit of Angel" (weapon-only) and "Shaman" (weapon-only). So, dear devs, could you kindly explain to us why some get FOUR different Affixes doing pretty much the same thing while others can't even get one that can be rolled for (or obtained at all)?
Holy Mastery: 4
Fire Mastery: 2
Ice Mastery: 2
Lightning Mastery: 3
Dark Mastery: 1
Poison Mastery: 0
Pet Mastery: 0
Lifesteal Mastery: 0
Where's the fairness? Or the balance? (What is your obsession with "Holy"? It's frightening.)
With all of the "Unique" affixes being added and Affixes being changed to "Unique" it starts limiting what we can actually put on our items.
Some Uniques are very questionable as well. "Steadfast" for example. "Critical hits no longer trigger, but damage dealt is increased by x%" with "x%" being up to 35%. Dear devs, if I have to give up 1000% crit damage (in other words, TEN TIMES more damage) while I'm sitting at 100% crit chance then why would I give that up for a mere 15-35% damage increase?
Another thing: Excessive (above 100%) Crit chance is being converted to 2% crit damage for every 1% crit chance.
What about dodge chance? Or cooldown reduction? Plenty of hero skills that can give a hero absurd values. For example: My Fire Sorceror has the "Passion" Passive at level 190 which gives: "reduce skill cooldown by 965%". Great, except that cooldown reduction is capped at 70% which makes anything beyond that (and therefore hero Passives that give this beyond the 70%) absolutely useless.
It's the same with the dodge Passive and even the "Sudden Rebirth" Passive (25% Chance to instantly revive when summons die, which scales well into the 200+% without adding anything beyond 100%). Basically, any Passive that exceeds a cap (or absolute certainty in the case of "100%") is USELESS above their cap and needs to be reworked to make them useful.
Legendary bosses drop a "Corruption Chest". In the past, I would get items of up to level 500-600 from this chest based on the floor level I was on.
These days, the Corruption Chest is useless for me. I get level 1800+ items. What would I want a level 450-460 item for?
Make them scale with floor levels or Legendary boss difficulty or something…. Legendary boss at "Extreme S" difficulty drops level 3500-3700 gear so why does the Corruption Chest give me 400-500?
Devs claim they read the forums. I have brought up the "Beast Hunt" Affix several times. No response whatsoever. During this time, one of the devs literally had not replied to anything for several days (so much for activity) and the other gave some replies but only to some Chinese posts (I guess non-Chinese players don't really matter).
At this stage, the game feels, plays and is balanced like an early beta and should not have been released as a full game. There is way too much balancing work to be done.
Suggestion for the devs: Stop claiming "compensation" for newly added skins that should have been in since day 1 of release (instead "compensate" us by delivering quality and proper balance), stop adding new Affixes of things that are already in the game (at least until ALL masteries have a fair and equal treatment) and and start fixing and balancing the things that are already in the game first.
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